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Today while I was at the shop whenever sell roll over our mowers and noticed all the flats and fill them up with air dunk them in a tank and notice they had microscopic pen holes all the way down near each of the seams where would it be I guess tread indicators and there's no way that my guys had ran over anything that caused these little tiny holes is anybody else having this issue

Take the tyres off.
Grass seeds work their way under the bead.
Using any of the "no flats" goos will cause excessive rusting which lifts the paint & again causes bead leaks
After that the joint between the words in the side walls and the side walls themselves suffer fatigue because the letters do not flex as much as the side wall itself
I did a set of Cub Wheels and under water you could see an almost perfect outline of the words Cub Cadet

In my locale the issue is thorns from Quince and Plum trees.

LanscapeMech said:

Today while I was at the shop whenever sell roll over our mowers and noticed all the flats and fill them up with air dunk them in a tank and notice they had microscopic pen holes all the way down near each of the seams where would it be I guess tread indicators and there's no way that my guys had ran over anything that caused these little tiny holes is anybody else having this issue

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I just had a new snow blower in the shop and the guy was complaining the tires would not stay inflated. Dunked them in the tank and both tires had many microscopic pingoles in the areas between the tread in both tires. Also had a fairly new husqvarna rider in the shop and inflated the front tires to the pressure on the side wall and one split wide open between two rows of tread.

Chinese tires? Have had new tubes that split while putting them in, just poor quality rubber seems like. And not actually cheap either.

Knowing the brand would help all of us too. I haven't seen any problem with Carlisle or Kenda tires but have fit issues with the 24x12-12 tubes from Carlisle in the same tires. They like to fold up and run holes into themselves. Went a size down to solve the problem.

Now Chinese tire like on the HF tires are extremely poorly made and deteriorate quickly when left outdoors.

Born2Mow said:

In my locale the issue is thorns from Quince and Plum trees.

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Here it is mainly Bradford pear tree thorns.I have a customer that didn't even make a week with new tires before he had several punctures in each tire. Kinda had to stop 2" thorns.

Boganvillias are very popular round here with home owners and tyre shops for the same reason .

bertsmobile1 said:

Boganvillias are very popular round here with home owners and tyre shops for the same reason .

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I heard the tire shops were actually giving those Boganvillias away !

What do you do when you get a tire in like that. If it is in the tread area we put tire go tire sealer in them. If they are running over thorns that is the best thing to do. For the front tires you can get run flat tires.

I use the dedicated low temperature mower & tractor tyre plugs depending upon what size the hole is and how many.
I have one customer ( now dead ) with better than 30 plugs in both rears , yes 4 Boganvillias in the front yard & a double row of African thorn trees in the back .

Tyre goop is water soluable so eventually will fail
On top of that if there is any imperfection in the paint on the rim it will lift the paint and rust the rims to the point that a tyre bead can no longer seal.